I don’t know if there are new products or new releases of existing products involved in these announcements. However, the keyword here is “self-service BI”. Other vendors already used this term in the past, now it’s the Microsoft turn. I hope to see real products and not only buzzwords.

BTW: I will attend the conference in Seattle – drop me a line if you will be there and you’d like to discuss the SQLBI Methodology with us (Alberto is coming too). You can find post about it using the Methodology tag.

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